Comfort Food Comfort Food Comfort Food. The windows are closed and the heat is on and I’m a couple weeks away from moving my porch herbs inside to hopefully survive and prosper rather than wilt and die. This change of temperature brought me an immense craving for roasted chicken, especially since I just came across [...]
Read more →It’s not often that I find myself walking around Beacon Hill on a weekend morning, but this was the case for me and my man crow last Sunday. We had to wake up early to drop off a rental car near Logan and with our stomachs growling our only option was to find a breakfast [...]
Read more →I am happy to report that I am out of my cooking slump! Unfortunately, some of my daft kitchen skills must have atrophied while I was sippin’ boozeshakes instead of cooking; the past week has been fraught with kitchen fails of epic proportions, as they say on the interwebs. Luckily, I only ruined one dish. [...]
Read more →This morning I woke up to faint moans and a whisper of “I think I need some advil and some grease.” Last night we had a spectacular fire in our backyard thanks to my mancrow’s (MC) efforts of “getting all hippy and shit” by cleaning up our backyard and building an a-class fire-pit. All in all [...]
Read more →I’m not sure how it happens but every now and again my vegetable bin gets bombarded with carrots. Luckily carrots have a long shelf life and can be used in a wide array of dishes (bolognese, carrot cake, mac and cheese, marinara sauce, etc.) so it doesn’t hurt to have a stash on hand. My [...]
Read more →Recently, my cooking slumped. I slouch around the kitchen, exhausted after work; I rely on old standards and My Steady Gentleman Caller. Dishes pose an existential crisis. The majority of interesting foodstuffs coming out of the kitchen result from the efforts of My Gentleman, and aside from breaking in the Kitchen Aid with VBar for [...]
Read more →Even though lobsters are available year round, their consumption is most commonly associated with summer. Partly because summer is notorious for over indulgence, but the REAL reason why lobster is so tasty in the summer is because that’s when you can get the soft shell, and my person fav, the chicks. Chicks are the smaller [...]
Read more →Check out this amazing article in the NYT style section today on preserving fruit in alcohol rather than canning. The crows do an awful lot of booze-fruit eating in the summertime when we fancy-up our white wines and simple cocktails with a little fruit garnish to be munched on at the end of the drink. [...]
Read more →As the days of farmers markets begin to dwindle i feel so lucky after each visit, hoping that it won’t be my last. Squirreling away the items i think will last the longest such as potato, onions and garlic, dreading for when I will have to pay for them in a check out line. This [...]
Read more →A couple of Thursdays ago (yes it has been some time since my last post) the JP Crows had the pleasure of attending the once a month Sam Adams open house. The open house is far superior to the free Sam Adams tour because it occurs on a Thursday evening (usually a prime party night) [...]
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